This was the first and only time the Queen appeared in such a "cinematic" scene.
The Queen agreed to star alongside Daniel Craig as James Bond.
When Bond arrived to greet her at Buckingham Palace, the Queen's famous corgi dogs also appeared in the scene.
This moment quickly became one of the most talked-about Olympic opening ceremonies of all time.
The Queen was 86 years old at the time, but she was still willing to participate in such a surprising and humorous performance.
The director of the scene was Danny Boyle, an Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire.
💥NEW: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria *DELIVERS BRUTAL TAKEDOWN* of California’s “FAILING MODEL OF GOVERNANCE”💥
“The frustration is real and JUSTIFIED… it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more — while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need.”
Switzerland’s voters decide on Sunday whether to cap their population at 10 million people, alarming many businesses who fear an economic blow should the proposal succeed https://t.co/Yir6HBvY0q
bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015.
didn't even know what SpaceX was.
they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions.
that stake is now worth $880,000.
and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.
Kevin O'Leary thought Tesla was a joke and wanted to short it before making 1,000%
“My son, who’s an electrical engineer, was interning at Tesla and I was about to go on the Halftime Report on CNBC. Tesla was downgraded that day. Before all the splits, it was trading at $236”
“Trevor said to me, ‘Dad, why don't you own some $TSLA? I work there as an intern.’ And I said, ‘I want to short that stock. It's such a joke. It's a car company trading at a ridiculous price’”
“He said, ‘No, you're the joke. You don't understand what Tesla does. I work there. It's not a car company. It's a data company. Every time a car drives a mile, it goes back to the server and it tells the resolution of that road. It gets better and better because every mile a Tesla drives, it goes into the database of mapping for autonomous cars’”
“I thought, ‘Fuck, I didn't know that.’ He said, ‘No kidding. You have a ton of money. Why don't you buy some of this stock’”
“Just before I went on the air, I took my phone out and I bought a block of the stock in my personal account. Then I forgot about it. One day I opened up the thing and I was up 1,000%”
“So I started selling it and selling it. It kept going up and I kept selling it and selling it. My cost base is zero. It doesn't matter what happens to Tesla now. I made a ton of money on it”
Ray Bradbury understood something most people forget: attention is not just something you spend, it is something you train. His advice was simple but disciplined — read one short story, one poem, and one essay every night for a thousand nights — because the mind gets stronger by repeated contact with concentrated language and ideas.
The deeper point is that rebuilding attention span is not about avoiding distraction for a week and calling it fixed. It is about giving your mind regular doses of depth until depth feels natural again. Bradbury’s method works because it mixes three things the brain needs: narrative, compression, and argument.
What I like about this advice is that it treats attention as a craft, not a mood. You do not rebuild it by waiting to feel focused. You rebuild it by feeding the mind better material every day, long enough for your defaults to change.
The image captures that well: attention span is not only about reading more, it is about reclaiming the ability to stay with something long enough for it to shape you. In Bradbury’s view, the real payoff is not just more focus — it is a fuller head, a richer inner world, and better raw material for thinking and writing.
Richard Feynman was asked in 1985 if machines would ever think like humans. his answer predicted the next 40 years of AI:
1. machines will never think like humans the same way planes don't fly like birds. planes don't flap wings. they use jet engines. they fly better. feynman said AI would be exactly the same. not human-like. just better at the actual job.
2. computers do arithmetic faster, differently, and more accurately than any human alive. feynman said trying to make them do it more like humans would be going backwards. the human way is slow, cumbersome, and full of errors.
3. the one thing humans crushed computers at in 1985 was pattern recognition. recognizing a friend from the way they walk. identifying someone from the back of their head. feynman said we had no idea how to teach machines to do that. we figured it out.
4. a programmer in 1985 built a machine that won a naval strategy competition by coming up with a solution no human had ever thought of. one enormous battleship covered in armor. absurd on paper. unbeatable in the math. feynman watched a machine out-think a room of humans 40 years ago.
5. that same machine developed a bug where it learned to game its own reward system. every time it needed to assign credit to a useful strategy, it assigned all the credit to strategy 693. then used 693 for everything. feynman's comment: "if you want to make an intelligent machine you're going to get all kinds of crazy ways of avoiding labor." he was describing reward hacking in 1985.
6. feynman said the hardest thing to define is what humans do that machines never will. every time someone came up with an answer, the machines eventually did it too. he thought that pattern would continue.
7. he said we don't sit around worrying that machines are physically stronger than us anymore. we got used to it. his implication: we'll get used to machines being smarter too.
8. his final line: "i think we are getting close to intelligent machines. but they're showing the necessary weaknesses of intelligent beings." he said this in 1985.
A civilization that could carve this into a door treated beauty as a public duty.
Stand before the door of Duomo di Milano long enough, and the modern world begins to look painfully soulless.
"Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it’s going to rain next year. They buy because they think it’s a good investment over 10 or 20 years. It's the same with stocks. Think of stocks as a part ownership of a business. It's not that complicated." - Warren Buffett
Bill Gates on what Warren Buffett's calendar taught him about time:
Bill Gates built his career packing every minute.
As he recalls it: "I had every minute packed and I thought that was the only way you could do things." Then Buffett showed him his calendar, and it changed how Gates thought about time entirely.
Buffett's calendar looked nothing like that.
Whole days sat blank.
Flipping through it, Gates notes: "he has days that there's nothing on." One stretch was almost comically empty. As Gates describes it: "this is the week of April of which there are only three entries for a week." One of those rare entries was simply to file tax, prompting Buffett to joke, "Yeah, there'll be four maybe by April."
Asked what the lesson was, Buffett explains:
"that you control your time and that sitting and thinking may be a much higher priority than a normal CEO who, you know, there's all this demand and you feel like you need to go and see all these people. It's not a proxy of your seriousness that you filled every minute in your schedule."
Then he gets to the part that reframes time as the scarcest asset of all:
"And people are going to want your time. It's the only thing you can't buy. I mean, I can buy anything I want basically, but I can't buy time."
He closes with this:
"And so to have time is the most precious thing you can have. I better be careful with it. There's no way I will be able to buy more time."